November 2020

Ma Ying-jeou Attempts to Hit Back at Tsai on Fifth Anniversary of Ma-Xi Meeting

Brian Hioe
Former president Ma Ying-jeou has continued to lash out at current president Tsai Ing-wen, accusing Tsai of undoing his efforts aimed at achieving peace across the Taiwan Straits. In particular, Ma’s latest attack on Tsai took place in the context of a conference held by the Ma Ying-jeou Foundation in Taipei marking the fifth anniversary of the 2015 Ma-Xi meeting earlier this month...
Cross StraitEnglishInternationalNovember 20206 min read

Pan-Democrat Legislators Resign En Masse from Hong Kong Legislative Council

Brian Hioe
Some have hailed the end of sham democracy in Hong Kong, with the remaining fifteen pan-Democratic legislators in the Hong Kong Legislative Council resigning en masse yesterday. The resignation took place in order to protest China’s National People’s Congress passing a resolution allowing the Hong Kong government to bypass courts in order to remove lawmakers from office as it deems fit...
EnglishNovember 2020Self-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements6 min read

電影評論：《無聲》

Enbion Micah Aan
《無聲》是以台南一所聽障學校中，發生性侵害的真實事件改編劇情電影，是一位大膽導演的強力首作。這部電影成功融合了多種電影類型，它同時是一部新黑色片、恐怖片、心理驚悚片和社會寫實片。深入探討了受害者和犯罪者的性格與複雜心理，將受害青少年在心理和性方面的困惑以敏銳和理解的方式表現出來。很少有年輕導演的首作品如此豐富和引人入勝，柯貞年將在未來台灣電影界裡佔有一席之地。...
Arts and CultureNovember 2020Photography中文1 min read

Tsai Administration’s Actions in Dispute with Indonesian Government Over Broker Fees Are Disgraceful

Jay Chen
The Taiwanese Ministry of Labor has condemned the Indonesian government for seeking to abolish broker fees, claiming that the Indonesian government was acting unilaterally in doing so, and seeking to displace costs onto Taiwanese consumers. This, however, is an incident in which the Ministry of Labor has sought to defend exploitative practices by brokers under the current broker system for migrant workers...
EnglishLaborNovember 2020Social Movements5 min read